Conversation: 859-009
Prev: 859-008 Next: 859-010Start Date: 21-Feb-1973 9:44 AM
End Date: 21-Feb-1973 9:55 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On February 21, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:44 am to 9:55 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 859-009 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 859-9
Date: February 21, 1973
Time: 9:44 am - 9:55 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Gridiron dinner
-Date
White House Correspondents Association Dinner
-Date
-Edgar Allen Poe
-President of Gridiron
-President of White House Correspondents Association
-Robert Roth
-Meeting with President
-President’s invitation
Nguyen Van Thieu visit
-Date
-Other meetings
-Gridiron
-White House Correspondents Association dinner
-Change of dates
-9-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov.-09)
Conversation No. 859-9 (cont’d)
-Press coverage of Thieu visit
White House Correspondents dinner
-Invitation Committee visits
-Gridiron
-Statement
Gridiron dinner
-Disadvantages
-George S. McGovern’s attendance
-Watergate references
-Criticism of President
-President’s and Dwight David Eisenhower’s experience
-Attendance
White House Correspondents Association dinner
-President's attendance
-Public statement
-Poe
White House Photographers awards dinner
-Date
-President's attendance
-California trip
-Press coverage of Thieu visit
Radio and Television Correspondents dinner
-Bob Clark, president of American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Letter
-Scheduling
-Dates
-White House Correspondents dinner
-Thieu visit
-Best date
-60-day troop withdrawal
-Advantages
-10-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov.-09)
Conversation No. 859-9 (cont’d)
-Speech
-National forum
-Timing
-Problems
-Invitation to President
-In person
-Clark
-Pictures
-Wire service
Invitations
-Meeting with the President
- Poe
-Jack Horner
-Clark
-Acceptances
Gridiron dinner
-President’s schedule
-Church service
[Telephone rings]
-New York
-Dinner
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Avoidance
-Excused compared with unexcused absence